Fair Dealing for Elementary Teachers
  • Fair dealing is a provision to the copyright act that permits non-profit K-12 schools permission to use copyright-protected work for educational purposes without permission from the copyright owner and without paying copyright royalties.
  • The attached  Fair Dealing Guidelines must be followed
  • For example sharing is limited to…
    • 10% of a copyright protected work
    • one chapter from a book
    • a single article from a periodical (magazine or newspaper)
    • an entire artistic work from a copyright protected work containing other artistic works
    • see fair dealing guidelines above for more

Here are some  Key Copyright Questions & Answers for Teachers

The Public Domain 
  • Any work that is not protected by copyright is in the public domain
  • Seventy five years after a copyright-protected work is created it moves to the public domain
  • Once a piece is in the public domain it is free to use without permission (Stanford University Libraries)
  • For example, Romeo and Juliet by Bill Shakespeare is in the public domain. So a teacher could print out copies of the entire play for the whole class.

Here are some links to find work in the public domain:

https://archive.org/

https://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday/2021/

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

http://www.gutenberg.org/

Creative Commons
  • Creative Commons copyright licenses are a way of having a middle option for creators to be between having full copy-right or being in the public domain
  • Creative Commons makes it possible for creators to decide how they want their work to be used. (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/)
Some Open Educational Resources

https://www.oercommons.org/

https://www.ck12.org/student/

https://learninglab.si.edu/

https://phet.colorado.edu/en/simulations/filter?type=html&sort=alpha&view=grid

Reusable Multimedia Groups
  • A place to find media that does not require attribution. Ex. A student can use a picture from this group without addressing copyright

https://unsplash.com/

https://www.google.ca/advanced_search 

https://www.pexels.com/videos/

https://freemusicarchive.org/search

Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (FIPPA)
  • No photos of students should be made public or shared within the class without permission
  • Educators should not collect or dispose personal information without informed consent of collection
  • If students are using social media for a project, educators should provide students/parents..
    • the educational purpose of the project
    • the technology used
    • the personal information that may be required
    • why the authority is requiring it
    • potential uses of the information

 

References

Welcome to the Public Domain